Angels in the Basement

Angels in the Basement is the second chapter in Nuegua: Book Two.
It describes the virtual tour of Nueguan created by Alathea and Pink for Sean's education. (The Nueguans are all computer simulations). In it we learn what is planned for the first sixteen generations up until and including the birth of Rintiala and Dianire. Their combined birth creates a chaotic jumping-off point, from which linear predictions become either highly speculative or impossible.

It begins in the kitchen of a typical Clan Demetran Sister, surrounded by her dozen children. Sean meets them as the grandfather they have never met.

The story is a descent from Demetra Guild of Nourishers to the Redourine Guild of Builders and finally to Healers Guild of Tiala, where we first encounter the Bright and Dark Queen enhancements to the original Nueguan strain.

As the story progresses we go from a traditional rural Mexican home to the Ray openpit mine in Arizona, and finally into the Healer's Temple near the San Carlos reservoir. Finally we descend to the secret hidden in the Birthing Mothers, namely Rintiala, Dianire, and a third not named. The original plan of Sean, Alathea, and Pink was to bread a Silver Queen who would combine the best of the Bright and Dark Queens, emerging in generation 24. Unfortunately, with the destruction of the Healer's Temple at the end of Book One, this breeding scheme is destroyed. What happens instead is that the conception Queen Ariana the Beautiful, the ruler of New Spain, and the offspring of Rintiala and Benedetto, jumpstarts the Silver Queen transformation of Ariana several generations too early, from the Nueguan perspective.

That her rise to power coincides with the return of the Sky Wanderers can either be seen as merely fortuituous, or as the followers of St. Dona Rina believe, the hand of God.